Example sentences of "[verb] that [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the court , it was not enough that the defendant deliberately did some act that had the effect , objectively assessed , of obstructing the police . |
| 2 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 3 | This porosity probably formed in response to the same early leaching process that affected the lagoonal mudstones and boundstones , and is made up almost entirely of intragranular voids . |
| 4 | It was the so-called Gilchrist-Thomas process that enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making by removing its impurities with the addition of lime . |
| 5 | It was therefore the playback process that caused the banning of the drum-kit . |
| 6 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 7 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 8 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 9 | ‘ I can do it , ’ she said in a steady , even voice that belied the conflicting emotions churning within her . |
| 10 | This time it was the specialist defence press that placed the construction of military adaptation on the venture . |
| 11 | It was the Nonconformist Beecher connection and the special relationship between American and British reformers which Nonconformists were doing so much to cement that paved the way for Uncle Tom . |
| 12 | This is a device we used that created a vacuum over the mother 's abdomen for regular periods during the pregnancy . |
| 13 | Its crust was already thick and rigid enough to hold open huge basins as early as 4.2 x 109 years ago ; and the great floods of mare basalt that filled the basins apparently ceased to erupt about 3.1 x 109 years ago . |
| 14 | We went to the museum with all aspects of the Great Western Railway and finally to the gift shop , the only one we visited that had the Bishop 's Castle Railway book on sale . |
| 15 | Many of the Dwarf Holds that escaped the lava and destruction were engulfed by enemies of a different kind : Skaven , Goblins and Orcs . |
| 16 | No , I do n't think that had a great deal to do with it , erm it was question that when the town was designed the , there had n't been this sudden burst in living standards . |
| 17 | And do you think that the move from the hand riveting to the pneumatic tools , do you think that made the job any easier ? |
| 18 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 19 | James Neill , the garden tools firm that suffered a sharp trading downturn , rose 12p to 197p . |
| 20 | In a series of experiments , balloons inflated sequentially throughout the gut identified trigger points that reproduced the abdominal pain in most cases of IBS . |
| 21 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 22 | The mixture of usefulness and display that explained the growing importance of the chaplains also lay behind the rise of other household officers . |
| 23 | The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib . |
| 24 | The parachute display that missed the target . |
| 25 | This was a possibility with the Travelling Workshops Experiment which published a number of learning packages in various subject disciplines that included a variety of guides to the literature and guides to individual reference tools . |
| 26 | Window wide open , no curtains and a narrow iron bedstead that looked no more comfortable than the one he had himself . |
| 27 | He was forced to withdraw his dissolution , though only after more than two years of controversy , during which time the Council had gone about its business and drafted a number of decrees that restrained the power of the papacy , and laid down reforms throughout the Church . |
| 28 | Also in collaboration with H A Weyers , a paediatrician from the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in Utrecht , a method was developed that permitted the analysis of faecal fat excretion in children with coeliac disease by analysing the correct coefficient of fat absorption . |
| 29 | I discovered the dark secret of DeKalb in Illinois after arriving in search of the childhood influences that shaped the life of the world 's top cover girl . |
| 30 | For all the surface change that accompanied the industrialisation of Prussian and German society the social and political pressures that emanated from the Junkers on these issues remained uniform and constant . |